Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four profess to reject the concept of an imposed settlement, which is anathema to both Arabs and Israelis. Instead, the diplomats hope to draw up a list of recommendations that Jarring would then present to both sides. The four powers agree that all discussions should take place within the general context of the November 1967 Security Council resolution, which calls for the Arabs and Israelis to recognize each other's right to exist and seeks Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories...
HAIFA, Israel--Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan said Sunday that the Big Four talks to promote an Arab-Israeli settlement grew out of "a fiction that the Middle East is burning...
Neither Israel nor the Arabs could be expected to accept such proposals completely. Israel, moreover, maintains that any settlement can come about only as the result of face-to-face agreement with Arab negotiators. On this point, the Arabs are reluctant, partly because such formal talks would imply full Arab recognition of Israel...
Wailing Wall. Given the vitriolic state of Arab-Israeli relations, it was, in a way, remarkable that these secret meetings took place at all-and perhaps not surprising that they produced no results. The Israeli sessions with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank...
...talks broke down, however, over Jerusalem. Hussein offered Israel some rights in the Jordanian part of the city-including access to the Wailing Wall-and talked of internationalization of the city as a possible alternative. Israel, of course, has formally annexed Arab Jerusalem and does not want to relinquish its hold. In any further Arab-Israeli negotiations, it seemed increasingly obvious that Jerusalem may prove the major sticking point...